Weak men are the slaves of what happens. Strong men are masters of what happens. Weak men are victims of their environment. Strong men are victors in any environment. Strong men may not change the circumstances, but they will use them, compel them

1
Weak men are the slaves of what happens. Strong
men are masters of what happens. Weak men are
victims of their environment. Strong men are
victors in any environment. Strong men may not
change the circumstances, but they will use them,
compel them to serve, and bend them to their
purposes. ---George Craig Stewart
2
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir
men's blood and probably themselves will not be
realized. Make big plans aim high in hope and
work remembering that a noble, logical diagram
once recorded will never die, but long after we
are gone will be a living thing, asserting
itself with ever-growing insistency. -Daniel H.
Burnhom
3
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest
upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough
to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
---Thomas Henry Huxley
4
The difficult we do immediately the impossible
takes a little longer. ---Air Force motto
5
We are never in the land of the done. ---Dr.
Dooley's letter to a young doctor
6
Mediocrity does not inspire men to greatness.

• ---Zarlenga

7
Because you lack a noble and successful past is
no reason why you should lack a noble and
successful future.

• ---Thomas Dreier

8
Excellence is a habit. The things you do the most
are the things you will do the best.
9
Think like a person of action, act like a person
of thought.
10
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a
matter of choice. ---William Jennings Bryan
11
The man who moves mountains begins by carrying
away small stones. ---Chinese Proverb
12
There are some timid souls that will never know
victory nor defeat. ---Theodore Roosevelt
13
It's not where you start it's where
you end up. You haven't failed until you've
stopped trying.
14
Consider the postage stamp It secures success
by sticking to one thing until it gets there.
15
Nothing can be done except little by little.
---Charles Baudelaire
16
Excellence is never an accident.
17
We ought to work harder at being what we should
be than hiding what we are.
18
Mend your speech a little, lest it mar your
fortunes.---Shakespeare
19
Begin now what you will be hereafter.---St.
Jerome
20
A man must make his opportunity.---Francis Bacon
21
If better is possible, good is not enough.
22
Accept challenges with open arms.---Jon Mulzet
23
You must have long range goals to keep you from
being frustrated by short term failures.---Charle
s C. Noble
24
I am here today to be the best that I can be, to
seize the day, and to be a zenith.---Clevetta
Haynes
25
Link yourself to your potential, not to your
past.---Stephen Covey
26
Success is not something to wait for, it is
something to work for.---Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
27
The reward of a thing well done is to have done
it.---Ralph Waldo Emerson
28
If I cannot do great things, I can do small
things in a great way.---Dr. Martin Luther King
29
Our fate is not within the stars, it is within
ourselves.---Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
30
If I have seen farther than other men it is
because I have stood on the shoulders of
giants.---Sir Isaac Newton
31
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard
than anyone else expects of you.---Henry Ward
Beecher
32
If you always do what you always did, you'll
always get what you always got. ---Verne Hill
33
Never, never, never, never give up.---Winston
Churchill
34
The quality of a person's life is in direct
proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of
endeavor.---Vince Lombardi
35
Don't be afraid to take big steps. You can't
cross a chasm in two small jumps. --- David
Lloyd George
36
The world is moving so fast these days that the
man who says it can't be done is generally
interrupted by someone doing it.---Henry
Emerson Fosdick
37
Ability will enable a man to get to the top.
But, it will take character to keep him there.
38
Well done is better than well said.---Benjamin
Franklin
39
When someone does something good, applaud! You
will make two people happy.---Samuel Goldwyn
40
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what
you can do.---John Wooden